Champagne for Alistair Darling

It's hard to think what anyone in the Government has to celebrate right now – particularly if you're name is Alistair Darling.

Yet this photo reaches me – taken this morning – of a delivery being made to the front door of 11 Downing Street.

The white van may look anonymous, but there's no doubt about the contents of the boxes on the trolley: the finest Moet & Chandon champagne, and judging by the size of the boxes they look like magnums at that.

In politics, timing can be everything. And this is surely not the time to be seen to be stocking up on the champers…